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Description

Business administration and organization: nature, stages, and procedures. Strategic planning and administration. Organizational structure and design. Human Resources management. Information and control system of the company.

Faculty

Professional interest

The Business Administration course is a basic course of 6 credits, which according to the European Credit Assignment in the UMH equals to 150 hours. The course length is quarterly and it takes place during the second quarterly of the first year of studies of the Degree in Law.

When the students have access to this course they have already had contact with its studio area through the course ¿Fundamentals of Business Economy¿ which takes place during the first quarterly of the same year. In this previous introductory course, they have a first contact with the business reality and also they get the basic ideas which constitute the fundamentals of the structure and business functioning which will be necessary for their future free exercise of the profession as well as for the comprehension of a business organization in the case of professionally exercise for others.After this first contact, the course of Business Administration, has as a primary objective that the students acquire enough knowledge to understand the philosophy or set of criteria that supports the Business Direction and Company Management, which addresses it from a global perspective.Following this theoretical framework the program deals, in first place, with a series of general concepts or fundaments of the business direction and management process which contextualize and conditions the action of the Business Direction in the redeeming of its first task ¿The Business Administration¿; that means, assuring the start-up and achievement of the business objectives through an interactive process which comprehends the phases of planning, organization, human resources integration, staff management and control. In second place, it deepens in the study of the Administration Process and Strategic Direction or set of Plans, Actions and Decisions which give place to the design and quantification of the Company Strategic objectives, following always its Philosophy and Mission.

With the above, it is pretended to develop some skills which will train, in general, to look, to assess and use relevant information to cover their necessities and objectives; to develop the ability of thinking and to use their abilities to confront and solve the challenges that life presents, especially, in the working environment and inside the heart of the organization. In a specific way, to make the future candidates capable of collaborate with co-workers, managers and any other person in their working environment, developing managerial skills and learning to use at maximum their potential.This course also provides the basic knowledge which prepares the students for the study of the subsequent courses, especially the ones related to other phases of the process of Administration and Strategic Management.

Competencies and learning outcomes

General competencies

Capacity to identify, interpret, formulate, and resolve problems and situations.

Ability to use the tools and instruments necessary for properly observing the systems under study.

Proper knowledge about government, businesses, institutions, public organisms and organizations in general, regulations, and procedures necessary for working and performing other activities.

Capacity for planning, organizing, directing, and controlling systems and processes within a framework that guarantees respect for values, rights and basic principles of the legal system, business competitiveness, protection and conservation of the environment, and sustainable development.

Skills for the efficient application of tools that lead to resolving problems.

Capability for developing new lines, processes, projects, and products.

Critical and analytical skills.

Capacity for evaluating, optimizing, and comparing criteria in decision making.

Ability to communicate in formal, graphic, and symbolic styles, as well as with oral and written forms of expression.

Manage and coordinate people.

Ability to work with multidisciplinary and multicultural teams.

Ability to update knowledge.

Capacity to consolidate, expand, and integrate knowledge.

Disposition for methodologies and efficient self-learning skills to adapt to and update new knowledge and scientific advances, as well as to changing needs in order to adopt an aptitude for innovation and creativity in the profession.

Specific competencies

Know and understand how an enterprise operates as a system, its main functional areas, and the impact of commercial, labor, and tax regulations on its creation and development.

Know the administrative process, the roles upper management plays, and the phases in the business creation process.

Be capable of finding and managing economic information.

Master the processes of mediation and negotiation.

Objectives (Learning outcomes)

01To know and understand the importance of the administrative process of the organizations. Identify the role of planning, organization, direction and control as the main phases which are part of that process.

02Understand the nature of the managerial job, setting apart the characteristics of its tasks and the different roles that managers play performing the administration of his unit.

03To think over the different abilities that managers need to properly perform his work.

04Getting familiar with the models and dominant paradigms in the administration area and business management

05To think over the importance and influence that some elements of the exterior and interior environment exercise over the activities and results of the business organizations. To know the concept of business culture and to study the business administration problems in depth in the international and global environments.

06Analyze the problems of business management in changing environments. To know and think over the convenience of applying Organizational Development Processes.

07Understanding the concept, elements and levels of strategy as well as identify the phases of the Strategic Management process.

08To know and to identify the main basic organizational structures and them through an appropriate organization chart

09Identify the role of behavior as a fundamental part of the administration process. Identify the functions of leadership, motivation and communication as basic tools for exercising the leadership role.

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Methodology and grading

Methodology

Case studies: Learning through the analysis of actual or simulated cases in order to interpret and resolve them by employing various alternative solution procedures.

Cooperative learning: Develop active learning through cooperative working strategies among students and promote shared responsibility to reach group goals.

Learning agreement: Develop active learning through an agreement between the teacher and the student containing commitments for what will be learned, how monitoring will take place for that learning, the set period of time, and the evaluation criteria.

Grading

Attending to the modification of the curriculum of the Degree in Law for the implementation of a group whose teaching-learning modality is blended, approved by resolution of the ANECA of 04/06/2013, the system established for all subjects in this modality It is as follows: a 70% final physical examination and a 30% continuous assessment.

A) The Final evaluation will be made on the date officially established for this purpose and will consist of three parts:

1. A theoretical-practical test type test (40% of the total of the grade),

2. A theoretical-practical test with short answer questions (30% of the total of the grade), and

3. Resolution of a practical case study (30% of the total of the grade), which will be done exclusively by students who have not passed the continuous assessment process).

B) Continuous evaluation: Students who have attended classes regularly will have the opportunity to pass the practical test (30% of the grade) throughout the course, through the following evaluation process:

b1. Active attendance and practical activities carried out in the classroom throughout the course will be evaluated. (up to 1 point)

b2. There will be a theoretical-practical test (Test and brief case study) at the end of lessons 1, 2 and 3 (TEST 1) (up to 1 point)

b3. A theoretical-practical test will be carried out (Test and brief case study) at the end of lessons 4,5, 6 and 7 (TEST 2) (up to 1 point)

Students who have passed the continuous assessment process (that is to say that they obtain 1.5 points on the maximum of 3) will be exempted from carrying out the case study in the final exam of June, September and December of the same year

Additional requirements

The identification document must be taken to all the tests (ID or student card).